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This is reckless beyond belief.
Greens spokesman on foreign affairs David Shoebridge has expressed concerns that a recent deal between Australia and India to export uranium could buttress India’s nuclear weapons program.
On Thursday, Modi declared Australia’s uranium reserves were critical to helping India meet its ambition to build more nuclear plants and energy, and lauded the growing ties between the two countries, as he and Albanese signed a raft of agreements to deepen defence co-operation and upgrade trade ties between Canberra and New Delhi.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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